L.A. Rebellion : creating a new black cinema / edited by Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Field, Allyson Nadia, 1976- editor.

Horak, Jan-Christopher, editor.

Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970- editor.

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American motion picture producers and directors--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

African American motion picture producers and directors.

Independent filmmakers--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Independent filmmakers.

Independent films--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Independent films.

Experimental films--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Experimental films.

History.

California--Los Angeles.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]

Summary:

"L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s. The group--including Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Billy Woodberry, Jamaa Fanaka, and Zeinabu irene Davis--shared a desire to create alternatives to the dominant modes of narrative, style, and practice in American cinema, works that reflected the full complexity of Black experiences. This landmark collection of essays and oral histories examines the creative output of the L.A. Rebellion, contextualizing the group's film practices and offering sustained analyses of the wide range of works, with particular attention to newly discovered films and lesser-known filmmakers. Based on extensive archival work and preservation, this collection includes a complete filmography of the movement, over 100 illustrations (most of which are previously unpublished), and a bibliography of primary and secondary materials. This is an indispensible sourcebook for scholars and enthusiasts, establishing the key role played by the L.A. Rebellion within the histories of cinema, Black visual culture, and postwar art in Los Angeles"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface: Once upon a time in the West . . . L.A. Rebellion / Clyde Taylor

Introduction: Emancipating the image-the L.A. Rebellion of black filmmakers /Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

Threads and nets: the L.A. Rebellion in retrospect and in motion / Chuck Kleinhans

Rebellious unlearning: UCLA Project One films (1967-1978) / Allyson Nadia Field

Tough enough: Blaxploitation and the L.A. Rebellion / Jan-Christopher Horak

Anticipations of the rebellion: black music and politics in some earlier cinemas / David E. James

Re/soundings: music and the political goals of the L.A. Rebellion / Morgan Woolsey

Struggles for the Sign in the Black Atlantic: Los Angeles collective of black filmmakers / Michael T. Martin

Bruising moments: affect and the L.A. Rebellion / Samantha N. Sheppard

The L.A. Rebellion plays itself / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

Encountering the rebellion: liquid blackness reflects on the expansive possibilities of the L.A. Rebellion films / Alessandra Raengo

L.A. Rebellion oral histories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-425), filmography (pages 355-402), and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

0520284682

9780520284678

0520284674

9780520284685

OCLC:

898161600

Publisher Number:

99965850410